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) Madam President, President of the Court of Auditors, I would like to start by thanking you and all of the members of the Court – including Ms Kaljulaid, who is here with you – for the work you do and in particular for the attention you pay to Members of the European Parliament. You pay us a great deal of attention and I really wanted to thank you for that. I would also like to thank Commissioner Šemeta, who, following on from the remarkable work of his predecessor, continues to improve the auditing of our accounts and the quality of special reports. I would like to apologise on behalf of my colleague, Bogusław Sonik, who has been detained by other parliamentary commitments. I too regret the absence of the Council, which is the budgetary authority.
Mr President, this report comes too late. That is not your fault. I tabled amendments to the Financial Regulation to change the timetable. The European Commission must present the accounts before 31 March each year, the Court must publish its report before 30 June, and Parliament must vote before 31 December.
It is inconceivable that today, in November, we should still be talking about matters concerning 2011. I suggest that the working group that I have proposed should meet to change this timetable.
I would like to make a few observations: Article 323 of the Treaty suggests that Parliament should ensure that the necessary financial means are made available to the European Union. I wonder if the Court could not play a role in raising the alarm about the Union’s cash position: we have learned that we had a shortfall of EUR 9 billion and we are incapable of paying our bills. I would therefore suggest that the Court can help us to monitor the functioning of the Union.
A final word about shared management: I think that we need to take another look at it here. I wonder about the independence of the audit authorities and about relations with our national audit institutions, and I think that the shared management system – which has proved useful in its time – should be re-examined. I wonder if we should not create our own finance function at Union level and get rid of this system of shared management, which contains a lot of errors, is very expensive and the efficiency of which merits re-examination."@en1
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